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July 2015

Midpoint and Distance Formulas

By | July 16th, 2015|Categories: Algebra, Geometry|Tags: , , , |

The midpoint formula and the distance formula are introduced in algebra class. If students do not get a chance to discover how they are derived, they become yet another set of equations and processes to [...]

February 2015

What Americans Spend on Holidays

By | February 28th, 2015|Categories: Algebra, Statistics|Tags: , , , , , |

The National Retail Foundation sends out press releases that outline their predictions for consumer spending each holiday season. The 2007 - 2009 recession is quite evident in the dips in the charts of the predictions. [...]

How is Sports Illustrated Faring?

By | February 7th, 2015|Categories: Algebra|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

The release of the 2015 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition often brings controversy of some sort. This year's inclusion of a plus-size model does not disappoint. Is it an about face that recognizes that women come in [...]

January 2015

Graphing Absolute Value

By | January 18th, 2015|Categories: Algebra, Algebra II, PreCalculus|Tags: , , , |

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXhADp-KPg8 When graphing the absolute value function, create a t-chart and list values for x. Then plug those values into the equation to find y. Be sure to treat the absolute value like a parenthesis [...]

Real World Absolute Value Functions

By | January 17th, 2015|Categories: Algebra, Algebra II|Tags: , , , , , |

Absolute Value To understand how the absolute value can be applied to the real world, we'll look at two topics: What is considered normal with regard to the temperature of the human body and Fuel [...]